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Monthly Archives: March 2008
The Castle
At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America’s shadow prison system in the war on terror. He was from Germany, traveling in Pakistan, and was picked up three months after 9/11. But there seemed to be ample evidence … Continue reading
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Bible Verse of the Day: Acts 22:25
“Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?”
Here We Go Again
School budget season has started. This year’s spending increase: 7.2%.
There’s Always Hope
I hope that Barack Obama will win the Democratic Party’s nomination. And I hope this, despite some evidence to the contrary, because I hope that he will not be Tweedledee to John McCain’s Tweedledum. I know Hillary Clinton would be. … Continue reading
Apple Makes Useless Design Decisions Too
Which jackass at Apple thought that it was more important for iCal to leave 50% of a day as white space and display ellipses than to display the entries that I’ve so painstakingly added to the calendar?
Great Speech, but…
Why, in a speech about a more perfect union, does Barack Obama mention Israel? … a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from … Continue reading
Borders
Perhaps because I’m not an international actor, it has always struck me as strange the reverence given to borders. They are, for states, like property rights are for an individual, inviolable. Borders are, to a great extent, an accident of … Continue reading
Kick the Ankle Biters
One Howard Kurtz appears to be employed by The Washington Post to read the web and regurgitate it with perspective. Must be nice. A while back, in evaluating whether Hillary Clinton had any hope against the swell of support behind … Continue reading
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